We assist our clients in the private sector improve their way of doing business by providing approaches to create harmonious work spaces and invest in local communities.

“People are the core asset of any business; we help them reach their true potential”

WHAT DO WE DO

We help our clients to mobilize, train and build awareness among their workforce to increase productivity within their organizations and create opportunities for rural communities to connect to larger markets.

We have existing programmes in the plantation, hospitality, apparel and artisan craft sectors, but are able to adapt to various sectors based on client requirements.

Through our Workplace, Marketplace and Social Enterprise divisions we provide tailored projects to suit our clients’ requirements using a combination of services:

Project Management

Project management is at the core of what we do. Building on our experience with CARE, we have been trusted by public and private sector clients to deliver projects that bring tangible results while improving their business.

We support our clients in the corporate sector invest in socially responsible initiatives that complement their visions and ideals while benefitting communities. We work with them to implement and manage projects on time and within budget.

We assist clients to navigate through issues that come up in the workplace such as discrimination, inequality and the ability to be heard, by developing strategies that address these challenges. The projects we design and manage include mobilization, awareness, training and facilitation that are tailored to meet our clients’ needs and help create dignified work places.

Staying competitive in today’s world of business means finding approaches that ensure sustainability.

We help our clients identify skill gaps in their business and provide support to fill the requirement. We help design and implement projects through our social enterprise incubation programme that includes expertise on business development and management skills.

Facilitation & Networking

We connect our clients in the private sector with small scale producers. We mobilize communities into collectives that connect with and supply to buyers directly, in the process helping entire communities uplift their income.

Understanding the importance of communication, we advise our clients in the private sector on how to develop approaches that will help them engage in discussion with their employees in order to create productive and pleasant work environments.

We have pioneered forums for employers and employees to discuss issues and come to an understanding in the tea plantation sector, helping improve the social return on investment of tea plantation companies and its communities.

WORKPLACE

Creating harmonious work places, where employees and employers can interact and communicate, and where workers have industry-standard skills, helps improve the bottom line.

Selvamalar’s Story

Selvamalar runs a successful food processing business in Mullaitivu. She currently employs 8 women and runs a certified kitchen with established market links. She has also single-handedly raised 2 children who are now independent adults. Selvamalar knows only too well the hardships of life, having survived a war, multiple displacements, and abandonment by her husband. She has only grown stronger through these challenges and now expends her time improving her business in order to support vulnerable women by providing them employment.

She successfully applied for a business grant provided through Chrysalis’ partnership with CARE Netherlands and H&M Foundation and used these funds to further expand her business, subsequently being featured on their Foundation 500 list of successful female business leaders.

Chrysalis endeavors to support women’s groups engaged in businesses to support the local economy and uplift the position of vulnerable women in society.

GALLERY

Partners & Clients

Gamini Jayasundara

Project Coordinator

Gamini has over 30 years experience in the development sector and was previously working for CARE International In Sri Lanka.

Niroshon Anthonees

Project Coordinator

Niroshon is a young and aspiring team member who is involved with the P.A.C.E programme at Chrysalis. He has a Master degree in Business management from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK and a bachelors degree in Business management from the Barathiar University in Thamil Nadu, India.

Lahari De Alwis

Head of Business Services

Lahari brings 11 years of experience working as an educator and a researcher overseas and in Sri Lanka with the corporate sector on development and conservation projects. With CARE International Sri Lanka she headed and managed their private sector portfolio, building relationships with corporates in the hospitality and plantation sector to design and implement projects focused on women and youth. Previously, she coordinated the establishment of the business and biodiversity platform in collaboration with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Having worked in South America and the UK, her international experience in education and multi-disciplinary research gives her a unique perspective and ability to work effectively across different fields, successfully combining key elements to give results suitable for all parties.

Lahari is a mathematician with a BSc in Mathematics and Physics, a Master of Advanced Study in Theoretical Astrophysics and a Master’s degree in Mathematical Biology and Biophysical Chemistry.

Ananda Alahakoon

Senior Consultant

Ananda has 35 years’ experience working in multiple development sectors in Sri Lanka. As an original team member of CARE International who pioneered the Community Development Forum model in the plantation sector, Ananda brings close to 20 years of experience working on development issues in this sector. His expertise includes working on rights based issues of plantation sector workers, community mobilization, facilitation and building private sector partnerships.

At Chrysalis, he provides his expertise on private sector partnership development and community empowerment, working to innovate and build new approaches using social entrepreneurship that will help sustain the tea industry.

He has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, and Post-Graduate Diploma in Community Development.

Thusitha Jayawardene

Project Manager (Plantations)

Thusitha is an experienced humanitarian and development professional with over 15 years’ experience. His areas of expertise include programme/project leadership, project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. He has sound knowledge and hands on technical expertise in community led interventions related to livelihoods, business development, emergency response and preparedness, recovery support, governance and water resource management. He led CARE International Sri Lanka’s Emergency Response and initiatives on disaster risk reduction, with skilled planning and management of multi-donor projects that required quick response time.

He has a Master’s in Organizational Management and Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.